Foreign Literature Volume -- One Hundred Classics in Multidimensional Perspectives

Author: Wu Xiuming, Chief Editor; Wu Di, Editor-in-Chief
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Publishing Date: 2004-07-01
Features: This series of books is primarily selected from the perspective of Chinese language and literature at the second-year level. They form an organic whole when taken together, yet each part maintains relative independence. For instance, modern and contemporary literary classics better reflect the openness and growth of the discipline, ancient literary classics better reflect its enduring nature and vastness, and literary theory classics better reflect its cognitive and dialectical aspects. Of course, from an apparent level, the serialization of classics may exert pressure and conflict on individual aesthetic qualities. It can be said that this pressure and conflict are a calculated manifestation of the institutionalized tendencies in Chinese language education and the inherent contradiction between literature and its poetic expression of the human and social world. "A Hundred Classics in Multidimensional Perspectives" is a recommended reading list for undergraduate students of Chinese departments in universities nationwide, as endorsed by the Ministry of Education. These works are rich in content, fluent in language, diverse in themes, and possess high literary and artistic value, making them well worth reading. Based on the guiding reading list for foreign literature determined by experts organized by the Ministry of Education, this book provides comprehensive overviews and detailed interpretations of each selected work.